unixzii/SimRun
Run iOS Simulator apps directly on your Mac.
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SimRun runs iPhone apps on your Mac, each in its own ordinary Mac window. It takes the app you already build for the iOS Simulator in Xcode, unchanged, and starts it directly. There is no simulated iPhone to boot, no home screen, no device frame: just your app, in a window, controlled with your mouse, trackpad and keyboard. Compared with the iOS Simulator app, so it's on screen in about half a second. minimize them like any other window. multi-touch input. No Option-dragging to fake a second finger. exits, the command exits with the same status, which is handy in scripts. everything apps have saved there, passwords included. Compared with Mac Catalyst APIs that behave differently. SimRun runs the iOS Simulator build you already have. controls and Liquid Glass look the way they do on a phone, not the way they're adapted for the Mac. someone else, without access to…
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- SimRun
- Why not just use the Simulator, or Mac Catalyst?
- What you need
- Install
- Download a release
- Build from source
- Use
- With the SimRun app
- From the terminal
- Tips
- Known limitations
- Learn more
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What this repository does
Run iOS Simulator apps directly on your Mac.
Repository facts
- Owner
- unixzii
- Primary language
- Objective-C
- Stars
- 270
- Forks
- 19
- Open issues + pull requests
- 13
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-10T09:09:19.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-17T09:51:38.000Z
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